Can you tell me the context of these 108 lashes? I still haven't watched the drama but saw a post showing stills…
The context in the drama is different from the novel. In the drama, ML says he'll take the whipping as a debt he pays to his uncle for raising him. It's a thin excuse but I guess they couldn't frame it another way.
The second half of the drama was carried by QM and WY. Both became villains through circumstances and fate. The ending was a bit underwhelming except for them.
The other comments are right. It's annoying that XZ is shifting his quest for revenge for his parents to defending FCY instead. It's like he has no story line in the plot except for being her accessory.
QM truly loves QQ but he doesn't know how to express it at all. Due to his childhood and the absence of anyone who loved him or showed him any affection, he just does what he thinks a woman would like. Shower her with gifts and prestige and honour and hope she'll stay with him. He really is pitiful and QQ as a modern woman sees it more clearly than these people in ancient times.
I read the novel and it wasn't like this. They reduced his role and his character's complexity. I like FCY but her story shouldn't have been the focus because it's frankly not as interesting as his trauma and 17 years of pain and endurance for revenge.